Captain Howdy has over 12 years of Body Suspension experience and has been performing worldwide for most of those years either as a solo artist or together with his Circus crew.  Over the past few years he has been involved in creating Suscon’s in England and Luxembourg and over the past year and a half, together with his wife Emily Cage – an aerial acrobat and burlesque perfomer – has introduced and organized the Suscon’s in Israel.

With over 15 years experience in the field of Body Piercing and over 8 years experience in Body Modification, Captain Howdy has made an international name for himself and has been featured on TV, newspapers, radio and in many tattoo articles worldwide.

 More information at: www.capthowdy.co.uk

Steve Joyner has over 21 years of piercing experience and has been an active member of theAssociation of Professional Piercers (APP) for 13 years. He is a former Vice President of the APP and a recipient of numerous awards. He serves on the APP's executive board, membership committee, and the legislative committee. Steve is an international instructor, specializing in Aftercare, Aseptic Technique, Studio Set-up, and Suspension. He has assisted 24 states and 4 countries in regulating body piercing and the art of public suspensions.

Steve has been involved with suspensions and performance art for over 14 years, first performing with Traumatic Stress Discipline (TSD) for 5 years and then as the Founder, Director, and Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed Constructs of Ritual Evolution (CoRE), based in Houston, Los Angeles, and Oakland/San Francisco. He enjoys collaborating with performance/theatrical troupes around the world. Steve is also an instructor for "The Art of Suspension", a seminar offered by Professional Piercing Informational Systems (PPIS) and Body Mechanixx and believes that safety, organization, and communication is the key to success on and off the stage.

 More information at: www.wearecore.com

Patricia Cram is a ritual performance artist who currently works with Constructs of Ritual Evolution (CoRE) and Aixela, both in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been an active member of the body modification community for the past eight years, focusing primarily on the art of suspension and its ritualistic aspects. Her history involves work with Aesthetic Meat Front (A-M-F), international SusCons, and creating an experimental theatre (Orbis Nex) in the Bay Area. As a writer and artist, she edits and designs VIAL magazine and works in the orphic arts of Automatic Writing and Drawing.

 Her work can be found at vialmagazine.com.